Live Suicide: Facebook Adding 3,000 People To Operations Team

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Increasing reports needing attention are requiring that Facebook gets in more hands to address them and other issues that Live video have whipped up, including Live suicide and suicide attempts, the likes that the world has not see before.

Facebook inc, says it will be adding 3,000 people to its community operations
team around the world to enable it review millions of reports it gets every
week.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, said the
decision had become necessary after reports of people hurting themselves
and others on Facebook - either live or in video posted later - increased.

“It's heartbreaking, and I've been reflecting on how we can do better for
our community.

“If we're going to build a safe community, we need to respond quickly. We're
working to make these videos easier to report so we can take the right action
sooner -- whether that's responding quickly when someone needs help or taking a
post down.

“Over the next year, we'll be adding 3,000
people to our community operations' team around the world - on top of the 4,500
we have today - to review the millions of reports we get every week, and
improve the process for doing it quickly,” Zuckerberg announced on Facebook.

The reviewers will also help Facebook get better at removing things that are
not allowed on the community like hate speech and child exploitation.

Facebook will also work with local community groups and law enforcement
agencies, which it said were in the best position to help someone if they need
it - either because they're about to harm themselves, or because they're in
danger from someone else.

“In addition to investing in more people, we're also building better tools
to keep our community safe.

“We’re going to make it simpler to report problems to us, faster for our
reviewers to determine which posts violate our standards and easier for them to
contact law enforcement if someone needs help.

“As these become available they should help make our community safer,”
Zuckerberg explained.

According to him, Facebook had last week stopped an individual considering
suicide on Live video from going ahead with his plan.

“We immediately reached out to law enforcement, and they were able to
prevent him from hurting himself. In other cases, we weren't so fortunate.

“No one should be in this situation in the first place, but if they are,
then we should build a safe community that gets them the help they need,” he
added.